Innovation Scholars Programme, Introduction to Python for Health Research, Health Data Science

2 days of hands-on training in the provision of predictable aesthetic and functional direct anterior and posterior composite resin restorations. This course will allow you to learn and develop your existing skill set after being provided with live practical demonstrations and showcasing clinical cases that will allow provision of these restorations to your patients to be an enjoyable experience.

This course gives delegates the necessary skills and knowledge to diagnose and treat cases of tooth wear in general dental practice. An array of practical techniques will be taught, which permit contingency planning. The course also covers clinical and applied occlusion.

This two-day course is aimed at providing General Dental Practitioners further knowledge and experience with both non-surgical and surgical periodontal management. Half of the course will be hands on practical sessions where you will also be improving your general surgical skills with sessions on day 1 and 2. During the hands-on elements there will be opportunity to practice surgical techniques on gingival tissues as well as hand and ultrasonic instrumentation.

Perfect Prep demystifies the principles and challenging techniques for creating functional, predictable and aesthetic indirect restorations both anteriorly and posteriorly. The course also challenges some of the more conventional views on indications for indirect restorations. Delegates will gain a clear understanding of precision tooth preparation and have the chance to improve their existing techniques. Preparations cut during the hands-on session will be reviewed and appraised by the tutor with relevance to the clinical consequences of the features integral to preparation. The course duration has been extended to two days in response to popular demand.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-moving field, with dramatic research breakthroughs emerging regularly. Many of these have utility for national security actors, whether in the military, intelligence agencies, or policy-making communities. Accordingly, AI has a longstanding and deepening connection with national security. This course will help to explore and contextualise these developments. It will reflect on some striking changes that AI is bringing to national security, including to military tactics and strategy and will explore the ways in which culture shapes the employment of AI. It will also consider some ethical implications of AI in national security affairs.

The rise of China in the Liberal International Order has caused uncertainty across Western civil society. China as a cultural and political entity creates anxiety in parts of the world where liberalism has dominated for decades/centuries. Citizens, policy-makers, and the military are catching up on their knowledge of China to deconstruct the complexity of a country that hosts a fifth of humanity and whose foreign interactions have been characterized by ambiguity. This course explores those areas of ambiguity where Chinese actions are causing security dilemmas and to learn lessons that can be applied in other areas of foreign/security policy.

The way financial advisors do their job is rapidly evolving. This free programme delivered by King’s Business School is designed for independent financial advisors, wealth managers, paraplanners, and compliance professionals seeking to navigate the dynamic landscape of ESG with confidence and master the principles of the new Consumer Duty in order to seamlessly integrate it into their daily practice. The programme is delivered self-paced online over four months, with one live webinar where participants can engage with their instructor, guest speakers and fellow participants.

This course offers an overview of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants in countries recovering from conflict. It outlines the concepts, definitions, and types of DDR approaches that are followed by various international, and national agencies to demobilise armed groups, and to return and reintegrate their rank and file into civilian society. The course will map the evolution of programmatic efforts and how shifts have influenced DDR effectiveness. It also incorporates a gendered focus on the reintegration of women and girl combatants and on the age-specific needs of child soldiers and explores the issue of ex-combatant re-recruitment.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of designing conducting and interpreting research on mental health. Students are provided with a thorough grounding in core epidemiological principles and methods central to mental health research as well as the appropriate statistical methods for data analysis. Computer based teaching introduces students to using STATA statistical software for data analysis and reporting

This one-day course will provide the opportunity to the general dental practitioners of further knowledge and hands on experience in minor oral surgical procedures. The course will comprise of interactive session and hands on training on sheep heads and will help in building the confidence of the delegates. This course will help to improve the confidence and knowledge of Minor oral surgical procedures. It will give an insight for managing the complications during the procedures.

The Indo-Pacific is emerging as a key region in which international politics are redefined. It encompasses some of the fastest growing economies, top military powers and rich cultures. Its economic dynamism rests on a maritime geography that has favoured connectivity and interdependence, its political make-up is defined by outstanding territorial disputes, unresolved Cold War issues, and entrenched Sino-American structural competition, and cultural traditions are both similar and different to Western traditions. This course explores what is meant by "culture", how people embedded in different cultures make decisions and when, why, and how culture matters in engagement with the Indo-Pacific region.

This module introduces the basics (and beyond) of the R statistical programming language, with practical exercises to get you started working with R. No prior knowledge of R is required for this module as all the basics will be covered. Starting from an overview of the capability of R as well as the data types that can be worked with. It will then cover control flows, function, data manipulation, Descriptive and Inferential statistics, and graphics with ggplot2. By the end of this module you should be able to use R to work on your own data or research.

Demystifying AI is training for the entire healthcare workforce. The five core sessions will introduce the basic concepts of AI and big data, what is AI, how it works, how can AI support different areas of care, and ethical and legal considerations of AI technologies. The specialisation modules will include a general clinical specialisation, focusing on the use of AI for improving patient care and making use of clinical data, a radiological specialisation, specifically tailored to radiologists and radiography support staff, and a non-clinical specialisation, tailored to engineers, non-clinical scientists, technical hospital professionals and Managers.

Around 1 in 3 people have a long-term physical illness, and of these people around 1 in 3 also struggle with mental health problems like depression and anxiety. Symptoms like pain,fatigue,disability,and uncertainty around treatment, can all contribute to depression and anxiety, which in turn can worsen physical symptoms. On this course you will learn how mental and physical health interact. You will look in depth at the relationship between physical illness and depression/anxiety and improve your ability to recognise symptoms and sources of help.

This course has been designed provide a strong foundation of the context of cross-disciplinary health research (whether that is clinical or academic) and the justifications for utilising qualitative and mixed methods approaches. The course will cover methodological issues from research design through to publication and will provide delegates with the knowledge and skills they require to successfully undertake rigorous qualitative research in whichever setting they choose.

More than twenty years since 9/11, terrorist-related threats remain alive. Thus, understanding counterterrorism and its dilemmas becomes paramount. What is terrorism? What causes it? Most importantly, how do we respond? Who is a terrorist? How much force shall we apply? Can we legally carry out targeted assassinations in countries we are not at war with? Can we afford true intelligence sharing? How should the media cover acts of terrorism? What are possible measures liberal democracies should undertake? After all these years, are we winning the “War on Terror”?

This 5-day course equips non-mental health clinicians with skills in the assessment and treatment of common mental health problems seen in people presenting to general hospital. Each taught day has a different clinical theme, covering, the confused/agitated patient, the depressed/anxious patient, the patient with medically unexplained symptoms, the substance misusing patient, and managing conflict. Students develop their skills in patient assessment using clinical interview and assessment tools,appraise research findings in a journal club, and contribute to discussions about challenging cases, in a supportive environment. Students can also participate in web-based activities and use e-learning resources to enhance their knowledge.

Military Healthcare Ethics (MHE) lies at the intersection of medical and military ethics. It is underpinned by the principle that medical facilities and personnel are fundamentally humanitarian actors afforded protection under International Humanitarian Law. Medical personnel (encompassing all healthcare workers and personnel assigned to medical duties) are not parties to conflict and thus have rights and duties. This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the topic of military healthcare ethics. It is designed to enable participants to understand Military Healthcare Ethics in order to practice healthcare ethically in the military setting.

This course has been designed for people working in imaging but with no neuroanatomical background. It will introduce participants to the basic principles of the anatomy, the function of the nervous system, the major anatomical constituents and parts of the brain

This course is designed to deliver extensive practical and hands-on training on experimental design and PET data analysis which, according to a recent survey, are in strong demand in the molecular imaging field.

A four-day lecture course covering basic and clinical aspects of radiopharmacy practice. The course progresses though the general areas of introduction and review, radiopharmaceutical chemistry, regulatory issues, and clinical radiopharmacy

This module seeks to provide students with a general understanding of sanctions, understood as the restrictive measures imposed by states or groups of states to achieve coercive influence in the international system. Sanctions are among the most frequently used tools of diplomacy. For many states, they form an important part of foreign policy, and they are regularly deployed in pursuit of foreign policy objectives.

This course will be suitable for professionals already within industry, academic, and healthcare sectors who want to enhance their knowledge, increase their skill set, and mix with other industrialists and academics.

This course will provide practical examples of how to perform statistical tests using the R software environment. We will explore the most widely used statistical tests and will explain the basic concept behind applying a stats test in R so that participants will be able to apply their knowledge to other tests not covered in this course. A basic knowledge of the statistical tests and a basic knowledge of R and Rstudio are essential.

Strategic communications is engaged with the shaping of long-term discourses in society. Strategic communicators aim to align these with their own values and interests. Through changing the attitudes and behaviour of their target audiences, they pursue strategic outcomes in politics and geopolitics. It is ever present as states seek to gain advantage over other states, and as revolutionary and insurgent groups struggle to overthrow the status quo in their appeal to populations. In the 21st century, strategic communications is increasingly appropriated by state challengers as they prove more persuasive than those states they choose to subvert.

Recent reports, including the second Ockenden report highlight the impact of lack of inter-professional working and identify lack of knowledge as contributory factors to stalling national progress in reducing the rate of maternal death. The course has been developed to address the knowledge gaps that contribute to poor outcomes and indirect causes of maternal death, and the teaching cuts across a range of professions that have traditionally been taught in silos. It provides the opportunity for advancement of knowledge of obstetric medicine in a multidisciplinary setting which encompasses medical disorders in pregnancy.

The purpose of this course is to consider how wargaming might be used to analyse and develop strategy. We must consider what strategy is, how it flows from one’s understanding of victory, and how it is influenced by the choices of others. In applying wargaming to strategy, we must unpack wargaming as method by understanding its history, its unique features, and how it can be best applied to questions of strategic analysis. By the module’s end students will be able to evaluate if, when, and how wargaming might address some of the challenges organisations and individuals face today.

The session will cover the theory and techniques to meet the outlined objectives. Participants are shown how to use an automatic external defibrillator (AED) and airway management correctly and safely. Discussion on specific medical emergencies and the use of specific drugs within primary dental care. The session will consist of Scenario Practice and group debriefing. Participants are introduced to an advanced training mannequin then split into smaller groups and immersed into realistic scenarios After each scenario a group debrief is assisted by using our digital recording system.